The Underground Campaign Calling for a Boycott of 'the Bezos Met Gala', fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/style/bezos-met-gala-boycott-posters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.pBCH.yBPM5YaVAECm&smid=url-share


The Underground Campaign Calling for a Boycott of ‘the Bezos Met Gala’

A guerrilla activist group is covering New York with posters criticizing the billionaire Jeff Bezos’ involvement in the event, a fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum.


On sidewalks and subway cars, posters began popping up this week urging New Yorkers to boycott this year’s Met Gala over the tech billionaire Jeff Bezos’ involvement in the event.

In February, Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, were announced as the lead sponsors and honorary chairs of the gala, a starry fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is traditionally held on the first Monday in May. For many, the so-called party of the year, with its celebrity guests and carnivalesque red carpet, had long since come to epitomize the country’s yawning wealth inequality.

But the sponsorship from the Bezoses, who have aligned themselves with the Trump White House, struck some activists as a particular outrage, especially at a time when the United States faces economic uncertainty at home and is embroiled in a war overseas.

“The Bezos Met Gala: Brought to you by worker exploitation,” read one poster plastered on a wall a few blocks from the museum, seemingly alluding to allegations of worker mistreatment at Amazon fulfillment centers.